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… as exemplified by the male and gentle zebra at Exeter Change, a menagerie on the Strand, who lost his wildness and let children sit on his back. This rare example of a tamed zebra, making naturalists hope in some kind of service to … England) 8 in order to start a new trend of interaction with animals, inviting the Georgians, including women and children, to touch or ride them. The thrilling experience of a physical proximity with tamed exotic animals was highly … of animals, since as Habermas explains, ‘anyone has the right to judge’. 9 At Pidcock’s Menagerie on the Strand children could ride elephants in an apartment that had been constructed for that purpose. The elephant involved the …
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